Minutes after the Shabbat began, IDF forces captured four Arabs near the entrance to Kibbutz Migdal Oz in Gush Etzion. The four were all armed with knives, and during the initial interrogation admitted that they were planning to stab a soldier. Migdal Oz has been the site of repeated terror attacks emanating from nearby Beit […]
This week alone over 60 Arab terror incidents were reported in Judea, Samaria, and even in Jerusalem. Seven Israelis were hurt in the attacks, ranging from stoning and firebombs, to a stabbing in Jerusalem. Some IDF officers are openly declaring that they believe we are already in the Third Intifada. According to a report in […]
Ashton signalled that the EU will take its time "assessing" and "discussing" before taking any formal action.
Islamic Jihad, usually associated with Gaza and which makes Hamas look like marshmallows, is alive and well in Israel. So is the Shin Bet, which foiled a kidnap plot.
Netanyahu condemns the terror attack in letter to Obama
The group was planning to kidnap an IDF soldier and use her or him as a bargaining chip for the release of Hamas prisoners.
Two Arabic language websites in Britain and Egypt, banking on the theory that people will believe a lie if you tell it often enough, have dug out the “Blame Israel for 9/11” libel again.
On Tuesday at 2:30 PM, a Palestinian managed to infiltrate into the town of Shavei Shomron. He was caught by the town's local security team. Update: This is turning out to be an unusual story, as the Palestinian did not infiltrate into the town to commit a terror attack. The Palestinian was involved in a […]
Palestinian terrorist stabs Jewish teenager.
On Monday evening, a suspicious object was noticed on the road leading to the northern entrance of Efrat, in Gush Etzion. Upon further investigation is was discovered that a fake bomb had been planted on the road.
On Sunday evening, three Arab residents of the village of Balata approached a checkpoint at the Tapuach junction. Something about the group raised suspicions of the Border Police, who then initiated protocols for dealing with suspicious incidents like that. The three terrorists were found to have been carrying 8 pipe bombs, and a gun. They […]
By JTA
Israel’s 2012 report on terrorist activity lists no Israeli fatalities in Judea, Samaria, or Jerusalem for the first time in four decades. The report, released Jan. 24 by Israel’s domestic intelligence agency, Shin Bet, says 1973 was the last year no such casualties were recorded. Attacks inside Israel claimed the lives of 10 Israelis in […]
The town's security personnel were called out, just as Shabbat was beginning.
Geller promises she and Spencer will partake in a proudly Zionist event in the Shangri-La Hotel, "we will talk forthrightly about the roots of Islamic antisemitism in the Quran and other Islamic texts."
More than 2,000 people have made contributions in memory of the young victims of the school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut to plant a grove of trees in Israel.
Shoshana Hebshi, a half-Jewish, half-Arab woman from Ohio is suing Frontier Airlines, the FBI, TSA and other governmental agencies after she says she was forced off a flight, strip-searched, and imprisoned on the tenth anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks.
On Tuesday afternoon, the IDF captured and arrested the Arab terrorist that seriously injured a guard from Yitzhar. During the attack that occurred around December 17, 2012, Arab attacked residents of Yitzhar, and injured one of the town's security men with a rock, causing him severe damage in the head and eye.
In what is turning in an almost nightly event, Arabs from next door Beit Fajr shot at the southern entrance of Kibbutz Migdal Oz in Gush Etzion on Monday evening. IDF troops chased the five terrorists into Beit Fajr. Bystanders heard shooting inside the Arab village, but the terrorists managed to get away. An explosive […]
Facebook allows Hamas leaders and other known terrorists to maintain pages.
On Friday, shots were fired twice on Kibbutz Migdal Oz from the nearby Arabs village of Beit Fajr. No one was injured in the attack.
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Some 50 Palestinians threw rocks and at least 18 firebombs and nine pipe bombs at Israeli troops guarding the tomb on Wednesday evening, according to the Israeli military.
Muslim terrorists attacked and hijacked a natural gas field operated by British Petroleum, Norway’s Statoil, Algeria’s Sonatrach and Japan’s JCG Corp in southern Algeria on Wednesday, killing at least two people and holding several foreign hostages, including Americans.
The IDF accidentally discovered a terror tunnel preventing a terror attack/kidnapping from Gaza.
The terrorist tried to run, but the IDF caught him red-handed.
By Jewish Press Staff Reporter
"They have two choices, to live in dignity or die with honor."
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced his plans to build a massive 43-mile cement barrier between the picturesque Golan Heights and the Syrian border.
On Sunday afternoon, IDF forces arrested three suspicious Arabs at the Gush Etzion junction, averting a terror attack. All three were carrying knives, and during their interrogation admitted that they were planning on committing a terror attack when the IDF caught them. Speaking in a closed forum to his soldiers, Etzion brigade commander, Colonel Yani […]
But the next Quartet meeting will be held in Cairo, where president. Morsi has close ties with Hamas.
Al Gore, former politician, "founder" of the Internet, and Global Warming Guru has just traded entree into 40 million U.S. homes for $100 million from the Qatari-Royal-Family-Owned Arab media conglomerate Al Jazeera. The operation will be called Al JazeeraAmerica. The deal has left many questioning its kosher bona fides. Perhaps the most traif aspect of […]
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Israel's military prosecutor filed an indictment against the head of a Palestinian terrorist cell who organized the bombing of a bus in Tel Aviv.
The bounty is intended "to encourage our Muslim Ummah (nation), and to expand the circle of the jihad (holy war) by the masses."
From the Prime Minister's Facebook profile, posted at approximately 8:20 Jerusalem time on January 1:
Arab rock attackers have entered their fifth day of targeting Jewish vehicles just a 3 minute drive from Jerusalem's Old City, using local minors to alert them as to which cars contain Jews so they can pelt them with stones and cinder blocks.
Jerusalem police refused to provide protection after days of consecutive rock attacks on Jewish.
"I am going to start an Intifada. They want me to betray the Palestinian cause. They want me to give up on our principles, and I will not do so."
Israel’s internal security service has arrested ten Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terrorists for plotting to kidnap Israelis, according to a report by the AFP.
A historic Jewish building in Jerusalem’s ancient City of David was firebombed by local Arabs , with supporters recording and posting the videotape on YouTube.
Senior Israeli security official Amos Gilad told Israeli Army Radio on Sunday morning that Syria’s chemical weapons are still secure despite concerns that Syrian president Bashar Assad will transfer his arsenal to Hizbullah in the event of his defeat in a bloody two year civil war.
In what the Israeli police are now calling a nationalistic (terror) attack, an Arab taxi driver drove into a border policeman at the Oz police station near Jaabel Mukaber in Jerusalem.
Overnight, Palestinians attacked a soldier at the Al-Ram (A-Ram) checkpoint, north of Jerusalem, and stole his weapon.
United Nations human rights investigators have confirmed that the Lebanese terror organization Hizbullah has taken up arms to fight alongside soldiers loyal to Syrian dictator Bashar Assad.
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Mohammed Merah's sister was summoned to a French police station for questioning regarding her praise for her late brother's murder of four Jews.
The Los Angeles police department spent hours on Tuesday utilizing highly specialized equipment to investigate a bomb threat near the Wilshire Boulevard Jewish Temple in Koreatown which turned out to be a hoax.
For the third time in a week, Arabs threw firebombs at the southern entrance of Kibbutz Migdal Oz in Gush Etzion, and fled into nearby Beit Fajr. Residents are hoping that the IDF plans to repeat the successful operation it ran the last time the Arabs kept throwing firebombs at their town. That operation resulted […]
A shootout ensued, and the journalists escaped through the back of the van.
It turned out to be a toy gun -- but very convincing.
(This article has been republished after the IDF censor removed the restriction) At 4:00 AM on Monday morning, during IDF operations in the village of Beir Rema, near Neve Tzuf, a terrorist (32) was shot in his lower body by the IDF. He was one of four suspects that were arrested in the operation. He […]
Yazis Hassan Muhammad Awad was convicted on Sunday by an Israeli military court for his role in aiding the Fogel murderers after they massacred the Fogel family in Itamar last year. Awad provided assistance to the two terrorists after they massacred the family, and helped them sell the weapons they stole from both the Fogel's […]
On Sunday evening Arab threw three firebombs into the entrance of Kibbutz Migdal Oz in Gush Etzion. The Arabs then fled into nearby Beit Faj'r. Approximately two years ago, throwing firebombs at Migdal Oz became an almost nightly Arab activity, endangering the lives of Migdal Oz residents. In one night the army put an end […]
The Border Policewoman in Hebron who shot and killed the Arab that pulled the (toy) gun on her fellow soldier has been pulled from active duty as of Thursday. It was explained that she was pulled due to the number of death threats she received. The Defense Ministry is trying to prevent further exposure of […]
Terrorists shoot at the Neve Tzuf settlement, nearly killing a girl.
"The Palestinian policemen proved that our state does have a border, and the Israeli occupiers can't walk in here whenever they want, because if they will – they will be beaten up."
Three explosions rocked Damascus on Wednesday, being detonated outside the Interior Ministry building. Syrian state-run Sana news reported that one person was killed and several others injured in a different car bomb attack near the Justice Ministry.
A female IDF soldier shot a Palestinian terrorist who pulled a gun and tried to shoot another IDF soldier near Ma'arat HaMachpelah (The Tomb of the Patriarchs) in Hebron.
Israeli forces confiscated files and computer hardware.
A new perfume for sale in Gaza utilizes a fragrance which is “pleasant and attractive, like the missiles of the Palestinian resistance,” and is being named after a missile used in the most recent bout of attacks on Israeli civilians, M-75.
A video uploaded to YouTube by Syrian rebels on Saturday seems to indicate that Syrian President Bashar Assad is attacking opposition forces with chemical weapons.
One person was injured, and a few cars and buses were damaged by Arab rock throwing near Karmei Tzur on Highway 60. The victim was treated by an IDF medical crew for a head injury at Karmei Tzur.
Ahmed Ferhani, one of two men arrested in an undercover sting in May 2011 and charged with attempting to blow up synagogues in New York City, has pled guilty, and now faces a sentence of 10 years in prison.
During a GSS (General Security Service) operation in Deir Sharaf, between Shavei Shomron and Einav, a Palestinian vehicle deliberately crashed into the side of the GSS jeep. As a result the jeep flipped, and all five of its occupants were lightly injured. The Palestinian driver of the terror vehicle then exited his car brandishing an […]
Bodies in Afghan police and military uniforms littered the entrance of an airfield outside a major US base in Afghanistan Sunday, killed in an apparent suicide attack by the Taliban.
Police foiled a possible terror attack in Ma'aleh Adumim on Thursday evening after noticing a suspicious vehicle trying to drive into the city of Ma'aleh Adumim, just outside of Jerusalem. The police stopped the car which had no plates, and arrested the Arab driver (40), a resident of the Shomron, who said he had planned […]
FIFA generously plans to rebuild the Gaza soccer stadium. The stadium was used as a Hamas launching pad to shoot Fajr-5 rockets at Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.
Three Palestinians crossed over into Israel from Gaza near the town of Netiv HaAsara. The town went on alert. The three were caught and brought in for interrogation. The alert was finally called off an hour after no additional signs of infiltrators were found. On Monday morning a terrorist entered the town of Sdei Avraham […]
YNET has published a report with the details of the terror attack this morning in Sdei Avraham. The terrorist from Gaza entered the home of Yael (39), where she was sleeping with her 4 children. The terrorist attacked Yael with a knife and iron rod, and she single handedly fought him off, saving the lives […]
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Since the commencing of Operation 'Pillar of Cloud' the police have recorded many events of terrorist activities and public disturbance in Judea and Samaria, which constitute a sharp increase in terrorist activity in the region. Stones and Molotov cocktails were thrown at cars, roads were blocked and tires were burned, marches were conducted. 201 events […]
Moshav Sdei Avraham (near Gaza Strip)- Police report that at around 5:30 AM Monday, there was a break-in into the home of the Shalom family. The intruder stabbed a woman in the house and then ran away. The IDF declared an official terror infiltration into the town, and began searching for the suspect within the […]
Israel is losing the diplomatic edge.
"We are trying to fix the tunnel in order to return to our normal life."
Both the perpetrator and his employer admitted the charges against them.
IDF reports claim that Israel’s military inflicted serious damage on Hamas during the eight days of Operation Amud Anan – Pillar of Defense.
German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle applauded the ceasefire agreement between Gaza terror group Hamas and the State of Israel, saying on Wednesday that "if the ceasefire holds, this would be a great relief for all of us, but especially for the people of Israel and Gaza".
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius outraged Tehran by placing the onus of “heavy responsibility” for the recent war between Israel and Gaza terrorists on Iran.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
Almost half of Sderot’s preteens suffer from signs of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Clinton made no mention of Hamas in her short speech, referring only to PA president Mahmoud Abbas.
By Ben Sales
KFAR AZA, Israel – In some ways, Israel’s latest confrontation with Hamas looks like past conflicts in the Gaza Strip. Operation Pillar of Defense has left some key Hamas leaders dead, depleted weapons supplies and hit more than 1,000 targets in Gaza.
Around noon, Wednesday, a young man boarded the Dan transit company number 142 articulated bus in downtown Tel-Aviv, an area of many government and business hi-risers (the IDF command center is situated only a few blocks away), and while riding for as few minutes, the man planted a bomb on the bus, exited at the corner of Weizman and Shaul Hamerlech Streets, […]
When police asked Kasab, 21 at the time, what he understood about jihad, he told them, "it [Jihad] is about killing and getting killed and becoming famous." "Come, kill and die after a killing spree. By this one will become famous and will also make Allah proud."
The United States on Tuesday blocked a U.N. Security Council statement condemning violence between Israel and Gaza, calling the statement a “fail[ure] to address the root cause” of the battle, namely missile attacks by Hamas.
Despite what appears like an emerging Intifada throughout Judea and Samaria, the IDF spokesman at the Central Command did not report or comment.Despite what appears like an emerging Intifada throughout Judea and Samaria, the IDF spokesman at the Central Command did not report or comment.
Iran’s Fars news agency is alleging that emir of Qatar, King Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani helped Israel kill Hamas terror leaders by placing tracking devices throughout the region.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
For Alex Leibowitz and his wife Olga, parents of four, the rocket attack could have had much more serious consequences had it not been for their dog, Louisa.
The IDF said that Hamas made cynical use of the stadium.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
Uploaded to Facebook on Sunday evening by Alarab Net, the newly captioned Syrian photo quickly attracted over 1,200 likes.
Two videos meant to strike fear in the hearts of Israelis have been met with snickering and mockery, with YouTube followers eager for an up-cropping of spoofs in response.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
This violation of the human rights of neutral foreigners is yet another example of Hamas’ attempts to manipulate and pressure the press.
In an interview with PBS NewsHour's Ray Suarez, Israel Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren explained the explosion of images circulating around the world, allegedly showing dead Gazan children "targeted" by Israeli air strikes.
An SMS from the Islamic Jihad to several Israeli Journalists has warned that the Gaza Strip will be the IDF's graveyard.
"They have a right to self-defense."
Israeli war planes bombed northern Gaza on Friday morning, killing two, as Egyptian Prime Minister Hisham Qandil was paying a visit, Palestinian security sources and medics told AFP. "The occupation's planes bombed a group of citizens in the Nazila area" in northern Gaza, the source said, shortly after Israel accused Hamas of failing to observe […]
The Israeli Air Force reportedly hit 70 targets between 9 and 10pm Thursday, including underground medium-range rocket launching pads, bringing the total number of IAF strikes in Operation Pillar of Defense to over 300.
IDF forces are assembled in their designated pre-invasion areas.
The IDF has dispersed warning leaflets above several locations in the Gaza Strip. This video is from Thursday, November 15, over Khan Yunis.
Though IDF Spokesman Yoav Mordechai says the call-up is limited and primarily focused on Home Front Command units, Israel’s military has begun calling up army reservists across the country, in preparation for a possible ground incursion into Gaza as part of Operation “Amud Anan” – Pillar of Defense.
Marwan Issa has been named the new commander of Hamas's military wing.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday made the following statement:
Defense Minister Ehud Barak made the following statement at a press conference earlier this evening (Wednesday, 14 November 2012), at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv:
A Twitter account which alleges itself to be the "The official web site of Al Qassam Brigades in Palestine" is simul-tweeting its military responses to Israel's Operation Pillar of Defense ("Amud Anan") for its almost 4,000 followers.
Since this morning, throughout Judea and Samaria, there have been demonstrations and violent marches of thousands of Arabs, to mark the so called "Palestinian Independence Day."
Update, 5:34 PM, Israel Time: The IDF carried out an extensive attack damaging to the long-range launch capabilities (over 25 miles) of Hamas and Islamic Jihad. The attack caused significant damage to underground launch systems and weapons and ammunition storehouses belonging to terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip. The purpose of the attack is to disrupt […]